Israel Alert Desk (Rehovot, Israel) 28 days ago
What if we are looking at the wrong historical comparison? When antisemitism rises, many people immediately think of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. But what if a closer parallel is something far less discussed, the Arab world in the 1940s and 1950s, just before nearly one million Jews disappeared from the region? In this episode of Proudly Jewish, Rabbi Eyal Bitton explores a largely forgotten chapter of history: the disappearance of ancient Jewish communities across the Middle East and North Africa.
